Workshops to address suicide 'stigma'

Workshops focusing on suicide in regional areas will continue to be held across Western Australia's mid-west and Wheatbelt this month.

Sports commentator Glenn Mitchell will share his experience of battling depression as part of the workshops, which follow a similar event in Moora last month.

The coordinator of the One Life Suicide Prevention Strategy, Jane Mouritz, says workshops will be held in Jurien Bay and Wongan Hills later this month.

"Certainly we need to reduce the stigma of suicide," she said.

"In a workplace, how awful would it be in a workplace if someone was feeling bad for days and days and was actually thinking suicide thoughts and all the work colleagues around them ignored it or did nothing about it?

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